Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Health Centre Failed Application - what was the po...":
"There is no approval recorded in the minutes of the Council to spend this money"
This could be a serious allegation? as if this is in fact so, and Biggleswade Town Councillors have spent public money without the appropriate authority or process, then they should be held personally liable for the expenditure.
But then I've noticed that not everything is recorded in the Minutes anyway. And you even have the Town Clerk admitting in another post that the Minutes don't always reflect what was actually discussed!
So just what is going on at the Town Hall?
Is it all above board or not?
In any case, the Councillors who have been promoting what has become 'Healthcentregate' need to account for their actions.
Questions I would like answered:
"There is no approval recorded in the minutes of the Council to spend this money"
This could be a serious allegation? as if this is in fact so, and Biggleswade Town Councillors have spent public money without the appropriate authority or process, then they should be held personally liable for the expenditure.
But then I've noticed that not everything is recorded in the Minutes anyway. And you even have the Town Clerk admitting in another post that the Minutes don't always reflect what was actually discussed!
So just what is going on at the Town Hall?
Is it all above board or not?
In any case, the Councillors who have been promoting what has become 'Healthcentregate' need to account for their actions.
Questions I would like answered:
- Who has been leading the charge on this?
and just as important, who has been advising Councillors that this is an appropriate use of public funds?
- And why is there no approval record? Or if there is, why can it not be found for looking?
- It appears from recent reports in The Chronicle that local GPs/health service providers are not 'on board' with the TC's proposed health centre location - were they consulted before this was pursued?
- Why did Councillors carry on with this when every measure of public opinion has said the new Health Centre should not be here but in the town centre.
- What authority do the Town Councillors have to apply for development permission on land that they don't apparently own?
- In response to what pressure from the electorate did the Town Council decide that the Town needs so many football pitches? Do the teams wanting to play on them exist?
- if the pitches were built, what would happen to existing pitches/facilities (for example behind Stratton Way). Would the Town Council then try to sell those areas for development?
£50,000 is a lot of anybody's money, and even more when it is ours.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Central Bedfordshire Council - Biggleswade Custome...":
Have these tasks been three-way quoted as they appear to be extortionate?
Posted by Anonymous to Biggleswade OnLine at 24 February 2011 16:45
Have these tasks been three-way quoted as they appear to be extortionate?
Posted by Anonymous to Biggleswade OnLine at 24 February 2011 16:45
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Paul Jenkins has left a new comment on your post "Council Tax & the Town Council Precept.":
If this is true that County Councils are in effect outsourcing services to smaller authorities at a micro level it's doubly disappointing that Biggleswade's recreation centre is shutting (at a poultry saving of £35k to Central Beds) that neither council supplying services to Biggleswade thinks it's a service worth saving
If this is true that County Councils are in effect outsourcing services to smaller authorities at a micro level it's doubly disappointing that Biggleswade's recreation centre is shutting (at a poultry saving of £35k to Central Beds) that neither council supplying services to Biggleswade thinks it's a service worth saving
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